Imagination is a powerful tool for social and cultural transformation. People need to be able to imagine and speak about change first in order to transform the world later. Our capacity to imagine creative alternatives to current society and politics, as Henry Jenkins and colleagues have explained in By Any Media Necessary, can be understood…
Yesterday, Monday August 29, after more than 50 years of confrontations, the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) and the Colombian government declared a definitive cease fire. The civil war in Colombia is the longest armed conflict in the Americas, and its human costs have been huge. As a result of prolonged war and violence…
Some months ago I shared the link to the videos of the documentary about animation I co-produced while working at the New Media Literacies Project at MIT. This time, I would like to introduce the DJ culture documentary, a collection of 8 videos that cover themes such as the mashups and remixes, tools and techniques,…
They appear everywhere in the city of Santiago. At corners, parks, restaurant entrances, sidewalks, subway stations, bus stops, and public squares. Street dogs walk the city, usually alone, sometimes in small groups. Drifting the urban space they have become part of the everyday life of Santiago. According to recent surveys there are more 500.000 dogs…
The second edition of Clubes de Ciencia Colombia succesfully ended yesterday with a simultaneous event in six different cities across the country. During the event more than 1200 Colombian youths participated in science fairs, dialogues, panels, and received diplomas for their successful participation in week-long science workshops. Parents, researchers, international and local scientists, and some…
During the past two decades the music industry has experimented deep transformations as a result of the massive adoption of digital technologies and the evolution of the networked communication environment. The spread of Internet connectivity and peer-to-peer networks, the emergence of dynamic Web platforms and services, the availability of cheaper audio equipment and free/open software…
The second Latin American meeting of Digitally Connected, a global network of academics, practitioners, young people, activists, philanthropists, government officials, and representatives of technology companies working on children, youth, and digital media took place last week in Santiago de Chile. Known as Conectados al Sur, this regional symposium occurred in Barrio Italia, at a new…